ResultsHead-On Car Accident Trial In Rockville

On February 16, 2011, Rockville car accident lawyer, George Patterson obtained a judgment for $1,576,747.00 in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County located in Rockville, Maryland. The award represented the maximum amount allowed by law for non-economic damages plus the complete medical bills for the survivor of a severe head-on car accident. The impact knocked their van off the roadway and it rolled over. The client sustained fractures to his leg, pelvis, neck, back and elbow in the car accident. The client, a resident of Damascus, Maryland battled severe infections from the surgical wounds to repair his badly fractured leg. The antibiotics he was given resulted in a Clostridium difficile (C-diff) infection of his colon that necessitated the removal of his large intestine.

Rockville Car accident lawyer, George Patterson also recovered $150,000 for the passenger that had less than $8,000 in medical bills. The unusually high award was based on the pre-impact fright of the passenger plus being trapped upside down in a van next to her critically injured husband for over 30 minutes.

A head-on collision results in a greater change of speed over a shorter duration than a moving car hitting a stopped car. When a car hits a stopped vehicle from behind the striking car does not come to a stop immediately but continues forward as the struck car is moved. A head-on collision with vehicles traveling at a similar speed results in a more rapid change in speed. A head-on collision produces a similar destructive force to the occupant of a car to that of an occupant in a car that runs into a fixed immovable object like a brick wall.

The head-on car accident lawyers at Patterson Law have litigated dozens of head-on car accident cases. These cases often involve disputes as to which driver crossed over the center line causing the accident. Accident reconstructions and independent witness testimony is often needed to prove that a particular driver caused the head-on car accident.